Anyone who watches the National Spelling Bee, where precociously bright Young Persons are tasked with embarrassing Older Persons by demonstrating how good they are spelling, are impressed and somewhat intimidated by what we Older Persons call “hard words.”

My thought is that they could have a similar competition where the contest words are exclusively names of classical music composers. You don’t see a lot of those “Adagios” or “Symphony for Woodwinds in F#dim7(b13) op. 6” pieces written by folks named “Jones” or “Price.”

For example, consider Saturday’s second concert in the 2022-23 season by the esteemed Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra. Titled (and featuring works by) “Shostakovich & Sibelius,” the presentation also includes selections from Valentin Silvestrov and Myroslav Skoryk — and my SPELL CHECK went off three times just trying to type it all!

Fortunately, the evening’s music, selected by conductor/music director Tokiyushi Shimada, are beautiful and rousing — and will be delivered with heartfelt fluency by the ensemble as well as guest soloist/ violinist Igor Pikayzen (not easy to spell, either). The complete program:

Silvestrov’s — “Prayer for the Ukraine”

Shostakovich — Violin Concerto No. 1

Skoryk — Melody

Sibelius — Symphony No. 7

Worth noting: Silvestrov and the late Skoryk are/were Ukranian and this concert is in part a tribute to the Ukranian people for the courage, resilience and suffering in an ongoing war.

Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Garde Arts Center, 325 State St., New London; $12-$65; www.ectsymphony.com; (860) 444-7373.